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From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
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Subject: Re: Posible memory leak!?
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 08:51:42 +0300
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On 14 May 2003 17:12, Boris Kurktchiev wrote:
> heh this is very interesting.... top b n1 reports this:
> top - 10:08:24 up 16:36,  2 users,  load average: 0.16, 0.19, 0.08
> Tasks:  62 total,   1 running,  60 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
> Cpu(s):  12.3% user,   5.1% system,   0.0% nice,  82.6% idle
> Mem:    385904k total,   381572k used,     4332k free,   137244k
> buffers Swap:   128512k total,    20012k used,   108500k free,  
> 126168k cached

Typical. So what makes you think kernel leaks memory?

BTW, which version of procps do you have? Mine is 2.0.10,
2.0.11 already exists.

> while gkrellm reports that my RAM used is 95MB. now this is
> interesting....

gkrellm must be subtracting something from MemTotal trying
to account for fact that large part of RAM is used as a cache.
You may consult its source.
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vda
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